I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.
When you privatize a common-property resource and hand it to a few individuals, you have taken private free enterprise right out of the picture.
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
They've said, 'If you agree to privatize and sell to us your railways, your electricity generation, etc. ? we will come in with capital.
This election serves as a national referendum on whether you are for or against the postal privatization. Unless we privatize the postal system, we cannot reform our social welfare.
Our position is that we want to protect community services, and there's no need to privatize or make cuts if there is no economic crisis in the city.
The President is off to a bad start. He owes the American people honest answers on whether he wants to reform Social Security or privatize it.
We have this one opportunity, and if we blow it, we have blown it for good. We've fought for 60 years to get this property, and now we are just going to privatize it and cut out the real potential it has for the public.
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.
Numerous factors affect the size of state bureaucracies, including demographics, crime levels and the propensity of states to contract or privatize services such as prisons or solid waste collection.